Addressee copy and paste with Outlook 2010
 

With Outlook 2007 and prior, highlighting and copying an addressee name from an e-mail allowed it to be pasted in any document with the same format. So, copy "Joe Bloggs" and on pasting you got "Joe Bloggs".

With Outlook 2010 however (whether by coincidence or not on Windows 7 instead of XP), I also get the mail address; copy "Joe Bloggs" from an e-mail and on pasting in a document I get "Joe Blogs <[email protected]>".

I am sure the setting in question is obvious, but I still can't find it!

Some help please to return my sanity because working for a global company with colleagues that have long and complex names, often with accents not easily typed without changing language settings*, this is a technique I use frequently.


TVM,
XV105

I use the excellent Autohotkey to shortcut the common ones but that's outside the scope of this post.

You may find a quicker way, but I believe that Paste Special works, then selecting Unformatted text.

SD

Thanks for the suggestion, SD, but Paste Special is unfortunately not always available.

This might get you on the right track.

SD

Thanks again, SD. I much appreciate your help, though unfortunately playing around with these options was one of the first things I tried. Within the past few minutes I have found a post similar to mine where the answer from an MVP was "it can't be overridden". :(